Lord David Dundas
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Lord David Paul Nicholas Dundas (born 2 June 1945 in Oxford, England) is a musician known for his film and television scoring, having previously had limited chart success in the rock genre.
Dundas is the son of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland, and was educated at Harrow and the Central School of Speech and Drama. He is also a one-hit wonder with his 1976 single "Jeans On", which reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart and originally appeared as a television advertising jingle for Brutus Jeans.
On 17 December 1971, he married Corinna Maeve Wolfe Scott, and they had two children:
- Daisy Star (b. 1975)
- Thomas Harry Django (b. 1981)
They divorced in 1995. Dundas then married Taina Bettina Breuckmann in 1997, and they have one son:
- Finn Arthur Ebenezer (b. 2000).
[edit] Album discography
[edit] Film and TV
- 1982 Fourscore — music for the launch of Channel 4, still used over 10 years later;
- 1983 Daybreak — startup music for TV-am in its early years, also used as the theme to the hour-long early morning news programme of the same name (also on TV-am), initially presented by Robert Kee;
- 1987 Withnail and I, original score;
- 1989 Get Ready — for the rebranding of ITV by English Markell Pockett (and later used in the idents for Border Television in the mid-1990s);
- 1999 another ITV rebranding, under the title "Television From The Heart", for FutureBrand English & Pockett.